Excavation, Analysis and Interpretation of Early Bronze Age Barrows at Guiting Power, Gloucestershire
Excavation, Analysis and Interpretation of Early Bronze Age Barrows at Guiting Power, Gloucestershire

Author: Alistair Marshall

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2020-04-30

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1789693608

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This volume covers the full excavation, analysis and interpretation of two early Bronze Age round barrows at Guiting Power in the Cotswolds, a region where investigation and protection of such sites have been extremely poor, with many barrows unnecessarily lost to erosion, and with most existing excavation partial, and of low quality.

Early Bronze Age Round Barrows of the Anglo-Welsh Border
Early Bronze Age Round Barrows of the Anglo-Welsh Border

Author: Neal Johnson

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9781407315966

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Thisresearch focuses on the Early Bronze Age round barrows of the central andnorthern Anglo-Welsh borderlands. Contextualisation of the barrows is providedby a discussion of the archaeology of the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Agein the study area. Existing classificatory schemes for barrows and cairns arecritically analysed and the variety of taphonomic factors that are likely tohave influenced the distribution of these monuments today is reviewed. Thetopographical context of a series of barrow clusters is examined in detail todemonstrate subtle but important differences in how these monuments were placedin the landscape. The study provides theoretical insights into the role ofbarrows and cairns. These are seen not solely as mortuary monuments, but as'interventions' in the landscape that gave material form to particular socialconcerns through the manipulation of significant materials in special places.